They aren’t, all their server does is handle the login authentication afaik, and then streaming happens directly from the server to the user.

Here, I fixed it:

The reality is that we need more resourcesmoney to continue putting forth the best personal media experienceincrease our profit margins.

lmao me either

We have a human vetted application process too and that’s why there’s rarely any bots or spam accounts originating from our instance. I imagine it’s a similar situation for programming.dev. It’s just not worth the tradeoff to have completely open signups imo. The last thing lemmy needs is a massive influx of Meta users from threads, facebook or instagram, or from shitter. Slow, organic growth is completely fine when you don’t have shareholders and investors to answer to.